> You mention gcc3; is it the problem of some of the utilities having been
> compiled against different library version (compiling with -static will
> should solve this if this is the problem).

no....
but i'll try it with -static anyway

> Is SSH in the vserver listening on the right IP/ports? Does `su' without a
> username (to root) work? Do you have any problems (or can you find out any
> information by doing a `vserver enter' from the host server?

yeah, everything's setup correctly....su didn't work at all, ftp neither...
i finally found out what the problem was ;-).
as /dev/pts isn't needed on my distro (gentoo 1.4rc1, devfs, gcc3.2,....),
there was no support for that in the kernel.
after recompiling the kernel with that option turned on, everything works fine
now.